Year 7 Visual Arts
Year 7 students arrived at SIHS ready to learn about the Elements of Art by studying artworks and making their own. The 4 units of work, based on “My World”, covered in Year 7 are People, Places and Spaces, Objects and Nature.
As well as the practical work displayed below, students regularly work in their Visual Arts diaries learning about the work of other artists and analysing through the frames. Each semester students completed an assessment task with a range and a choice of learning activities to extend their creativity and critical thinking.
Places & Spaces
Students settled in well and started with their first unit. "Places and Spaces". They produced a range of works exploring the elements of Art including line, colour and pattern. Students experimented with paint, pen drawings and watercolour.
Suburban house paintings inspired by the work of Howard Arkley
City Skyline Watercolours
Term 2 turned our attention to “People”, and students were given some very difficult (but entertaining!) tasks to complete on portraiture.
One of these tasks was to create a portrait inspired by Chuck Close's artmaking style. Like Close, students broke down their images into their smaller component parts using a grid and made deliberate decisions about the patterns and colours they would fill it with, creating a pixellated effect for the audience when they examine the finished product. From up close the image is abstracted and indiscernible, but from a distance the figure becomes clear!
Another one of the challenges were to make celebrity portraits from words. Students could see that art can be fun and can be made from anything, anywhere, anytime!!!
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People
Objects
As students returned to school they were back to our recently refurbished facilities and moved into the "Object" unit where some students worked in clay, others in printmaking, paint and photography, as year 7 is all about providing experiences while learning the basic building blocks of Visual Arts.
Nature
Students explored the shapes and forms of animals and created line designs.
Meanwhile other classes created fish prints, animal sculptures and relief tiles with clay.
The Archies 2021
As always, the Year 7 Archies Competition is a highlight of our year. Students have been asked to create a portrait of their chosen teacher in any medium. There were certainly some entertaining and interesting perceptions of our staff!
All student entries were displayed in our Year 7 Art Exhibition at the top of C block. Students were very excited, gathering around and pointing out their entries to one another. Our top finalists were exhibited down in D block.
